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I didn't aggressively attack you, I merely stated that your statements will seem ridiculous to the next generation, and already do to many in the present one. If you want to make the extraordinarily strong claim that women are biologically less suited to senior academic positions than men, then...

Like 1000x, @Alvin! It was barely a century ago when people believed that if you overeducated women, they would not be able to cope and could easily descend into madness. It sounds ridiculous now, doesn't it? Because we know better. But the claims made here by @sb4 will seem just as ridiculous...

How delightfully ironic - profiling them as they do us! Have to disagree on the right wing thing. I think most of the psychoBS is originating from the left. Those groups are more in bed with the touchy-feely stuff. And the whole looking after your "wellbeing" with psyc services, IAPT and all. I...

Thanks for posting. Its not surprising to read of yet another poor group of patients whose problems are being inappropriately psychologised. What IS surprising is that this one dentist - Peschke - is actually speaking out against it in no uncertain terms!

Yea, wasn't this one of the reasons given for not releasing it? Because they wanted to publish further studies? How can they do this now without revealing that they have access to the data? I wonder whether this is a win in a way. That they've at least given up on churning out more PACE BS.

Good question! Mella says that a lot of PwMEs experience nausea. You wouldn't necessarily know if you were on the placebo, but you have a fairly good chance of knowing you're on the active drug.

Gosh, that's a stretch of the concept of PEM though. That makes it considerably broader - in a way that might make it even harder to define. (my symptoms are massively affected by infections too).

PS Add to say I don't believe any of these things are the cause of FND either! I find those accusations objectionable too!

@Tab Hoarder, thanks for your perspective - and welcome to the forum! (love your username, by the way :laugh:). I have also encountered a lot of FND people who are very comfortable with certain aspects of the psychostuff. Its seems to be acceptable when dressed up in one of two ways: 1. In...

Totally. First, they assume that just because people can't lose weight through exercise alone, that exercise isn't helpful. Second, they assume that the only calories you lose through exercise are from the energy you burn from the activity itself. As you say, there seems to be pretty good...

Now you've explained, I have a better appreciation of the old avatar. :thumbup:

Love your new avatar, @Flying Dutchman!

Yes! I'll leave this one for @Cheshire, as it falls within some of the topics she has been working on.

I suppose they would argue that fatigue is a subjective measure - by definition. That if you use objective measures, you're actually measuring something else - physical function or mental function or whatever. I think there's a question as to whether the subjective feeling of fatigue is as...

Here is the article, which is open access. @Marco, please feel free to add the link to your OP so people can directly click through if they want to: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002496 The study is problematic, because it collapses across alzheimer's...

You both have a point, @Sisyphus and @Arnie Pye. Of course every country needs a free health care system - you're totally right, @Arnie Pye. Just saw that video of the US guy with ALS pleading to Trump not to roll back Obamacare because he would lose access to treatment. That's why you need...

Yea, it seems to mean they can claim they consulted patients, but then if anyone asks if those patients were representative, they have an instant defence - "no, no, we never said they were patient reps, they're just lay members".

I'm less worried about whether the underlying relationship between ratings and fatigue is linear or logarithmic or whatever. I just want there to be a relationship. We can worry about scale when we've got that first part right.

Sure is. Added. Link is: https://www.s4me.info/threads/historical-studies-pre-2000-of-particular-scientific-interest.2191/ You're the first person to actually take up the invitation in my signature line!

The entire November 1978 issue of the Post Graduate Medical Journal was devoted to ME and can be accessed here (note ME is called Epidemic Neuromyasthenia in this issue): http://pmj.bmj.com/content/54/637 Click on the article name in the table of contents, and then click on the PDF symbol on...